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135: 342: 236:-speaking British natives there (perhaps using it as a fishing boat harbour). The name is believed by local historian Ray Freeman to derive from Wall (perverted to War) and River/Stream (a meaning of Fleet). There is a stream at the head of the creek by a wall. The story that crusaders fleets moored there is believed by her to be an invention of local river cruise drivers looking for a more entertaining (but untrue) version of history. 38: 196:
According to "The place-names of Devon", by J E B Gover, A Mawer and F M Stenton, volume 1 page 321, the etymology is uncertain. But since all early spellings start with Wal- or Wel-, it is not named after the "war fleets" of the
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Trevor was in at the start of sport diving in Britain after WWII, establishing the first school for amateur divers at his idyllic home on Devon's Dart Estuary
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The British Underwater Centre was one of the premises along its north side. It had anchorage for boats, and facilities for training in
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of 1147 and 1190, although the harbour of Dartmouth has seen many other war fleets, not least the American fleet en route to
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is a small triangular tidal inlet in the west side of the
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